shinohai takes mod6 camping, gets neg trust rating.
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mircea_popescu: CHINA DOESN'T UNDERSTAND HOW CHINA SHOULD WORK SO THE WORLD CAN WORK LIKE WE WANT IT TO BECAUSE WE'RE IMPORTANT!111
mircea_popescu has redominated all his real estate leases throughout the world into usd during the past ~year, so this should be fun indeed.
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mircea_popescu: (my own interpretation of reality being that china has decided there is no need of a us in the future, which would be implemented through a slow divestment so as to extract the maximal value possible out of their holdings. now that they've actually moved on it, they're not going to change course. which means 2010s are the last decade for the us.)
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mats: i rather like living in the US northeast and would like to put off my migration into cn for as long as possible
mats: mebbe i could move back to san jose and hope it survives as meta-cn
mod6: shinohai takes mod6 camping, gets neg trust rating. << haha, wat?
mod6: i only like camping in the desert or in the west in general. "back east" sucks, too humid.
mod6: mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that << ikr! i heard some lawyer say to another lawyer on the train, "mind your man spread bro".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: to be noted, of course, that this "if you're poor enough to need to use our mnass transit, here is how you must sit" nonsense follows twenty-thirty years of "oh using cars is bad for the environment, when mass transit is just as good"
mircea_popescu: and that's exactly how govt ploys work, ever since forever. in all cases.
mircea_popescu: 1st it's all about "why will you use something you control instead of something we control ? it's cheaper! environment! racism!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then it's "since you need us, here's what you must do".
mircea_popescu: well how about fuck that. no "bigger blocks", no mass transit, no government anything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and if in facvt it is cheaper, that's only proof the government is taking in too much tax.
mircea_popescu: "here's your flier advertising cheaper mass transit in lieu of taxes this year. fuck off."
mircea_popescu: somehow nobody ever thought to ask the self-proclaimed "bitcoin businesses" that nevertheless have 0 bitcoin income signing whatever ridicuolous proclamation HOW DO TYHEY INTEND TO PAY FOR IT.
mod6: the fact that the one guy didn't outright say to the other "fuck you." is totally limpdick pansy-ass bullshit.
mircea_popescu: how is coinbase going to pay for big blocks. more tax money ? more fees ? what ?
trinque: mod6: stop mansplaining your manspreading, bro
shinohai: Simple, GAvin says merchants will mine to help pay tx fees.
shinohai: That's what *I* would like to know.
mircea_popescu: mod6 fuck you maybe not the proper form, but "i want those season tickets back and after you've dropped them off do not say hi to me anymore."
mod6: if some vagina on the train told me to "watch my man spreding, i'd be like. ``fuck off, dickhead''" it's the only reasonable response you hvae left any more.
mircea_popescu: mod6 amusingly enough, the itnernal logic of all this is that sitting lkike a man IS A BEHAVIOUR, see. up to you. whereas being fat like a woman is NOT to the same degree a behaviour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which is to say, yes she's fat because she won't stop eating junk
mircea_popescu: as orwell pointed out, stupid regulations always favour cockroaches.
mircea_popescu: so instead of steel bars limiting access to subway to only people that can fit through
mod6: i think that's next, bars between seats.
☟︎ mod6: they have these bus benches with them now. partly so you can't encroach on someone else, and partly to keep bums from sleeping on them.
mircea_popescu: it works for cats, right ? so there is even science behind it!
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> fedex all the people! << haha
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mod6: speaking of fat people. when I was at the statefair on monday, there was some time-dialation from the sheer increase to like 29 Solar Masses.
mod6: im actually like 293 years old now, i just look like im 35.
trinque: mod6: don't get that close to Gargantua
mircea_popescu: "us democracy has provedly brought the absolute worst solutions to all conceivable problems for the past 50 years. why would anyone not want it in their country!"
mircea_popescu: because srsly... anyone recall my argument re drugs legalisation ?
mod6: democracy for everyone! we will send you the diebold machines!
mircea_popescu: if drugs were legal, the only ones left standing would be idem.
mircea_popescu: mod6 not like the fatsos couldn't buy cheap shit and cook at home.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and it's EXACTLY like, junkies COULD do something else with their time
mod6: it boggles the mind. i always look at other peoples carts at the grocery store.
mircea_popescu: and now salary is, for 50% of the population, based on the mcdonalds mchappyshit
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and then, salary will be, for 50% of the population, based on the going sprice.
mod6: the heaviest people always have 57 bags of pizza rolls, 28 hotpockets, 13 bags of cheesy poofs and 10 2 litre bottles of diet coke.
mircea_popescu is stuffed with TWO!!! homemade round breads + argentine milanesa (schnitzel really). fucking delicious.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile everywhere kfc is going crazy advertising a ... 5 meat patty thing
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:26:41; mircea_popescu: ahahaha wouldn't they like to "bring democracy" to china too
mircea_popescu: i dunno, who the fuck can eat them. it literally looks like 10x my daily meat intake, and im a consummate carnivore.
mircea_popescu: about 50% of romania's foreign investment in the early 90s came from young colorful men plying that trade abroad.
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mats: guilty-plea-after-package-tracking-breaks-opsec << what an idiot crime. you gonna set up a stooge at the drop and hope he can outrun the black van?
mod6: mircea_popescu: one thing about food in b-a, it's amazing how good /real/ food tastes! lol.
mircea_popescu: except, perhaps, one. hardly any theo and a lot of rem in it.
trinque: were there no welfare bad food and drugs would be fine filters
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> tho they have nfi about dairy. << that one italian place had some decent cheese iirc... but perhaps it was imported.
mircea_popescu: all cheese imported,a nd i have very specific cream and kefir/yogurt requirements.
trinque had unpasteurized milk recently; there's a good farm for it nearby
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu wants transylvanian sour cream god fucking damn it all.
trinque: entirely; you just live in the worst part of the US
mircea_popescu: hey asciilifeform how come you live in shitington, dc ?
trinque: I've milked the fuckers myself and this tasted just like that
trinque: had the nice muted sweetness to it, quite alive
trinque: sure, parents have 130 cows or so
mod6: im simply amazed that you can sit on that beltway everyday. that stuff was bananaballs.
trinque: I don't do it often, but I know my way around an udder, lol
mircea_popescu: for a while years ago i amused myself by organising reality tours for various people from afar. sort-of like a conference i guess.
mod6: asciilifeform: understandable.
mircea_popescu: once we went to a farm, and cow was being milked by girl
trinque: asciilifeform: you could find some bullshit startup to.. milk
trinque: and make loads of bezzlars
trinque: asciilifeform: I bet Galois in town would hire ya
trinque: sure, they'd make you write haskell all day or something
mircea_popescu: or in the words of maggie the cat, "you can be young without money. but you can't be old without it"
trinque: I can sorta see it; at least one might come home with some cycles left to spend on something interesting
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:06:14; mircea_popescu: mod6 not like the fatsos couldn't buy cheap shit and cook at home.
mats: the argument is often made that 'healthy food' in us is expensive
mats: and the 'cheap shit' roughly approximates to rice and beans or a mcchicken
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:06:47; mircea_popescu: and now salary is, for 50% of the population, based on the mcdonalds mchappyshit
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (with a third, hastily wired in like an iraqi ad hoc mine, 'grow own') << Not so bad, cheap monetarily and in terms of time for the veggies, get expensive quickly for the proteins
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:07:48; *: mircea_popescu is stuffed with TWO!!! homemade round breads + argentine milanesa (schnitzel really). fucking delicious.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:59:53; mod6: i think that's next, bars between seats.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:53:24; mircea_popescu: well how about fuck that. no "bigger blocks", no mass transit, no government anything.
mats: mcdrivethru is a solid deal if you're looking to just exist, yakno
mats: a buck and some change gets you ~350cals, 14g protein
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funkenstein_: compare price to bag of potatoes, or oats, to see real value
mats: 21:49:57 <+asciilifeform> ... the nuance here is that the city as we know it is fundamentally a creation of mass transport. as in, you would have to demolish almost all of new york or london to park cars, if everyone were to come by car. << you ever been to LA?
funkenstein_: megalogs.. applause on thread: re standards become the sorcerers explanation
funkenstein_: asciilifeform, the joke is on them of course. the train is infinitely more comfortable
funkenstein_ stood shoulder to shoulder in packed train today comfortably reading book
mats: sop in every mega-city: hk and sg island, tokyo, monaco, london, etc...
trinque: I loathe public transportation.
trinque: here it's more than likely you'll share it with some bum covered in his own shit and piss
mats: 21:57:42 — +funkenstein_ stood shoulder to shoulder in packed train today comfortably reading book << reminds me when i'd catch a nap in the cattle car during movements between barracks and training site, fully burdened by gear and supported on all sides by other dudes
trinque: really doesn't matter where in the car he is; you smell him
trinque: they don't enforce tickets very well
trinque: probably as some tacit matter of policy
funkenstein_: well you could always carry a two ton steel wheelchair with you and wait in line behind idiots
trinque: parking's probably hell around there
mats: MPs got it easy in 'AIT' (job training)
mircea_popescu: <mats> the argument is often made that 'healthy food' in us is expensive <<< healthy food is expensive if you imagine yourself me but for the grace of god, and then attempt to remedy this lack of grace by papering over with money. yes you'll have to pay a lot for someone who doesn't want to, to cook at home for you.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones << this is a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: maybe for natural causes, but aided and abetted nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mcturd costs a dollar or two. << look at how "inflation" is calculated sometime.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> f everyone were to come by car. << the city as we know it is before that a creation of the "not everyone's invited" principle.
mircea_popescu: the entire point of having a city and cars is the endless line of half-naked farm teenagers begging for a ride, stretching out to the horizon.
mircea_popescu: take that away, having towns is a waste of everyone's time.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> everyone just eats from bag, like a horse, whenever. << good enough for the pakistani's rapemeat warehouse.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:42:49; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in usa folks are gouged for rent, not for food.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> funkenstein_: comfortable when empty but for you. << ro anecdote. many years ago /me went to pick up new slavegirl, decided on train for return trip. rented out whole compartment. upon entering ordered girl to strip and masturbate. cue VERY amazed train conductor guy checking tickets, level with and two feet away from rubbed clit.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in daily argentinian lols : their government is deeply inept (so much so that id cards actually have chips with medical history and whatnot). takes me about ten minutes to have complete history on anyone on the basis of their identity number.
mircea_popescu: like, what their mother's name was and employment history and whatnot
mircea_popescu: it is the one saving grace because otherwise twerpy as they are they'd be entirely unsuable.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's a fine exercise in the importance of "national identity" schemes. they exist so that the actual people can make some sort of sense of the cattle.
mod6: everyone has these id cards?
mircea_popescu: and yes, i understand that the view in the us is that such schemes take away individual agency.
mircea_popescu: the problem is - they do not. they merely are made unavoidable by the already lost individual agency. which people lose because it's too heavy t ocarry, like the late roman army shield and helmet.
mircea_popescu: but saying "the government wants nat'l ids to oppress people" is like saying "maggots want blood separation to kill the corpse".
mircea_popescu: by the time blood solids separate out of plasm the body's long dead.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (the silent H in all this being : no, an argentine can't pretend to me to be X or Y or Z. because i have a schematic understanding of what he MAY be, and that is the absolute and enforced limit of his destiny.)
mircea_popescu: and the exact same thing is coming to an us near you. because if you let the twerps "be what they want to be", they'll want to be "creative evangelists at large" and similar randy zuckerbergianisms. which aren't things.
mod6: oh yeah, they tried to pass all that through a while back.
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mircea_popescu: once people lose the ability to confront кто ты по жизни (and notice i did not say "answer"), a numeric classification system is unavoidable.
mod6: are you still trying to find MSM articles on that? i dug one up from bbc earlier...
trinque: yeah, but all they're doing is acknowledging the rumors from elsewhere
mod6: dow was up 293 points today. im sure they use the circut breakers just as much when price movements are to the upside.
trinque: never have I felt like so many things were on the verge of... well, god knows what... all at once.
trinque: though I have not lived very long
trinque: these are interesting but... slow!
trinque: everything crawls, maybe due to the attention span of the modern media consumer
pete_dushenski: and while it may feel like everything on the verge, things can feel that way for decades
pete_dushenski: while some governments or currencies or infrastructure items may fail, it'll be a series of events, not all at once
pete_dushenski: well, it ~is~ a series of events, and we're witnessing it
trinque: mhm, as mircea_popescu noted re: chinese selling of us bonds
pete_dushenski: what it would be like to live in an age when ~everything~ seems to be improving, may we one day find out, but that will be a long day from today
trinque: hell I'd just like to watch it rip loose
pete_dushenski: probably what 1950's usa felt like, on the improvement score
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski /me lived like that for a coupla decades, actually. ro of the 90s was a fab thing.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i read pop sci, pop mech, growing up. they fascinated me even in the early 90s. will have to check on 50s back copies
trinque: mats: aw, isn't sociopathic to pull the plug on grandpa when cancer's eating him all through
mircea_popescu: in mid july 1989 govt was pretending like romanians did useful work. by 1992 govt was out and out saying that the ~65 dollars a month you earn is barely justified by your work value.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:08:18; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones << this is a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered as it is by accident.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only redistyributive taxation can create this situation where they who should be rich think they're somehow poor, and the poor wear alternatively idiot and imbecile clothes.
mircea_popescu: that article i did about "cheers", the sitcom is very illustrative. twerp in question imagines "class" as in, that ancient matter of a person's quality in society, is a matter of anointed. she thinks some vagabond is "high class" because she went to some school.
trinque: my favorite alt-food crackpottery is the gluten free thing
pete_dushenski just had a moment imagining taxation that wasn't ~distributive~ but actually for summun bonum
trinque: you check the nutrition label and it has nothing in it
trinque: granted a small percentage of people actually need it (celiacs, etc)
trinque: but it's more "filler" than mcd's
mircea_popescu: trinque i'll give you an extra lol. recently the source of the "salt is bad mkay", ie the ustardemia, came out with an admission of the fraudulent nature of that entire swathe of "research". this however has not yet reached the latino "scientists" who mostly exist through translating things and pretending.
☟︎ trinque: I dunno, but I do know someone who shits blood when she eats bread
mircea_popescu: so right now if you're a spanish speaker salt is white death still.
trinque: mircea_popescu: translating lol. I knew an Argentine chick; she did exactly this, and was supposed to be intellectual because of it
mircea_popescu: (/me has known enough of the sort by noiw, to the degree he mostly points at their face and laughs)
trinque: oh indeed, and loved american "rock and roll" from the 80s
trinque: asciilifeform: shits blood and barfs with any wheat product
trinque: I half-suspect it's an autoimmune thing caused by not wheat, but something they had in the production thereof
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i developed gluten intolerance (not dissimilar to lactose intolerance as an experience) as an adult. why ? monsanto ? youthful rebellion against grain-growing ancestors ? who knows
trinque: folks with celiacs will actually scar the lining of their intestines eating gluten
mircea_popescu: the difference between the black slave of 1815 and the black freeman of 2015 is that the former actually thinks that, to paraphrase, ", you don't get to fuck the white mistress."
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: oddly, my metabolism has worked in the reverse of that theory. ate it regularly, eventually 'had problems', now, few years on, can handle small amounts
trinque: asciilifeform: I don't know the mechanism, but I've seen the bloody shits.
trinque: my fetishes are my business
mircea_popescu: you know, something not being known in 1800 is not automatic proof the something doesn't exist.
trinque: again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's some garbage that was in wheat production processes at some point
☟︎ trinque: perhaps the immune system gets irritated, marks the gluten instead of whatever else
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but autism is an actual thing, or you disagree with the very notion ?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:49:46; asciilifeform: having to, e.g., work for a living, actually compute costs of things, etc
trinque: mircea_popescu: not to my knowledge. it'd be a good experiment
trinque: she did also have an issue with lactose, had less trouble with that unpasteurized milk from the nearby farm
trinque: all these diseases smack of "ate not-food most of my life"
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: then you're only borderline ! gov says !
mod6: i agree with ascii; if you have to look at the price tags, you're not rich.
trinque: I dunno; prices are good information
trinque: why would someone who knew enough about money to keep it ignore those
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mod6: not that they're not good info, or good signals in a market place. but if you go shopping and have to think about weather you can afford to buy something, you're not rich.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> rich has ~the option~ of ignoring. << yah, & alarm clock, job, et al.
pete_dushenski: mod6: as if rich people don't weigh out costs and benefits ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you two are conflating at least three things. there is 1. "not having any ability to direct the course of public affairs, as encoded in "money" in this society" ; 2. "not having 1 and perceiving one should have it" ; 3. perceiving one should not have it.
mircea_popescu: i agree you're poor as per 3. you like to claim it's as per 1.
pete_dushenski: maybe i buy off-brand mac and cheese instead of 'kraft dinner', save $0.50, invest, be moar rich !
mircea_popescu: much like genitalia belong, indivise, to "the other gender" as a group
mircea_popescu: yes but the problem with that worldview is that it makes absolutely no sense.
mircea_popescu: you can not "buy back own arse", at any price, for as long as you think in those terms or anything like them, your ass is public property.
mircea_popescu: and this is purely a subjective problem, no matter what it masquerades as.
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01; mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
trinque: seems you can't own just your ass
trinque: you have to own the context of the ass!
mircea_popescu: his tragedy, and make no mistake alf is a true tragic figure,
mircea_popescu: is that his brain has decided it will not live without the products of industry ; while his ass does not enjoy the delights of anal proximity ; while the two are insepoarable, respectively : his ass from his head, and industry from maggotry.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you are not, incidentally, the first to confront this.,
mircea_popescu: early men building up the us as an industrial power did want the part where maggotry allows them to run textile mills
mircea_popescu: but they hated with burning passion the girls involved. which, i'm sure, in their worst nightmares sounded just like mats' bus linked above
mircea_popescu: so they invented this incredibly contorted torture mechanism for them
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can not answer for taleb. i can tell you that as far as i'm concerned, a) my ass actually enjoys the company and b) my head actually doesn't much care about the industry.
mircea_popescu: so my solution is merely lower temperature under the tragedy pot, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: and if i were in prison, i'd still have roquefort flown in, and it'd still be shared with some monkeys.
trinque: this is kinda what I mean about something like "you're smart, take the shartups for all they're worth"
mircea_popescu: i stuffed more of the finest sturgeon roe into random women than anyone you know.
trinque: I know a guy that makes like 120k building terrible web-pages
trinque: nah he farts around and drinks
trinque: I dunno I have a sense of humor about it
mircea_popescu: that what, "this guy is too independent thinker to hire" ?
trinque: what's the islamic concept re: lying to enemies?
mircea_popescu wishes he'd have the poetic skill of at least a tolstoy, to write The Story of Alf,
mats: truly deserving of a screenplay
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:52:40; trinque: again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's some garbage that was in wheat production processes at some point
☟︎ mircea_popescu: is this "not having the circuitry" anything akin to "i cnat spael, i'm an artistic type" ?
trinque: I dunno; you don't have to subscribe to their newsletter to talk
mircea_popescu: well if you feel like writing about this polio sometime i'll read it.
trinque: consider the person a specimen and ask questions
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:23:45; mircea_popescu: by the time blood solids separate out of plasm the body's long dead.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is in bad taste to kill people but be unfamiliar with the body's path through this world. much like eating cream but never having milked a cow, or eating meat but never having hunted, and so forth.
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: yup aside from celiacs it's bullshit
mircea_popescu: the point is made in passing in that discussion of rabbit killing.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 03:14:19; assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:52:40; trinque: again, I wouldn't be surprised if it's some garbage that was in wheat production processes at some point
mircea_popescu had never seen a cockroach in the flesh before going to costa rica
mircea_popescu: had serious problems overcoming the mild curiosity. i don't see them as THAT much of a pest yet actually.
mircea_popescu: but it was more like a wilderness sighting of wonder than anything.
mircea_popescu: oh and acutally, the first time i EVER encountered a rodent as a domicile pest (of exactly three times total) is, iirc, on my blog somewhere.
trinque: my cat came home bloody today, must've killed some rodent or another
trinque: yeah, I let mine out; got him from somebody on craigslist in the woods in TX
trinque: they're fine animals if you let them do what they're made for: climbing trees and murdering smaller animals
trinque: otherwise they turn into that sad window-gazing bastard that jumps at every noise
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:52:58; mircea_popescu: 1st it's all about "why will you use something you control instead of something we control ? it's cheaper! environment! racism!"
trinque: people ask me if I feed him enough. of fucking course I do; that's just a cat with muscle, not blubber
trinque: because they're bought to be furniture
trinque: corn for all gods creatures
trinque: remarkably similar result in each case
trinque: I feed animals meant to eat meat... MEAT!
ben_vulpes: trinque: is clearly not buying the nice frozen stuff.
trinque: I buy the primo shit from Meat on Burnside
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ben_vulpes: and lol can anyone actually drive to your place from the depot in less than two hours?
pete_dushenski: "Amazon Prime Now - Skip the Trip. One-Hour Delivery."
ben_vulpes: the correct solution here is drive-by order pickup on arterials.
ben_vulpes: "shop all day, pick it up on your way home!"
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BingoBoingo: cazalla: removed some things that don't get used
ben_vulpes: well i've not parsed v in its entirety into my head yet, and after bitcoin i'm loath to run software that doesn't fit in my head.
ben_vulpes: it's software that i must run that does not fit in my head!
ben_vulpes: so why python and not cl, out of curiosity?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> now, old dog hands inform me that the absolutely irresistible treat, to dog, is cat shit. << Any kind of shit really.
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform takes off hat << To inspect in head?
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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: more lines is all you can be guaranteed of.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: would you elaborate on "own the machine" and a) why it should and b) how python does not?
ben_vulpes: some other 15 year old bitcoin wizard however long ago
trinque: ben_vulpes: "doesn't own the machine" sounds to me like "/etc/hosts isn't a python data structure"
ben_vulpes: how is /etc/hosts a cl data structure?
trinque: presumably on a lisp machine it would be some data structure in some system
phf: common lisp specification is written in a such a way that you don't need to know anything about the outside world to fully replicate a ~useful~ computation
trinque: phf: and if that useful computation is DNS?
trinque: I was addressing "own the machine" not CL
phf: trinque: yeah, i'm also talking about owning the machine
trinque: so answer the question. where would a lookup table like /etc/hosts go if the system were completely made of lisp?
trinque: I'm feeling around in the dark, would love to know
phf: trinque: that's not a particularly interesting question
phf: but there's a pathname spec that lets your implementation answer that question for you
trinque: apparently in pure lispland you'd never once DNS
ben_vulpes: cl is such a delightfully crazy mindset
ben_vulpes: the impl handls the dns parts of pathnames
phf: why you write your dns of course in lisp
ben_vulpes: it's just a file on a server somewhere mang
trinque: both missing the point. I am asking stylistically where something like an /etc/hosts would live
trinque: not where the actual fucking thing lives today
ben_vulpes: setq an alist that shit you care about uses to look things up?
ben_vulpes: phf: one day i'll find an interesting question, i swear
trinque: like for example in unixland you say "you make a file" for every question
phf: ben_vulpes: alright, that was an unfair comment, but i was trying to say that the focus is wrong.
trinque: presumably various aspects of actual hardware state would also be represented as data structures in lisp
ben_vulpes: trinque: imagine nic internals as clos objects
trinque: whereas you find that in /sys or /dev on linux
trinque: ben_vulpes: yeah that'd be hot
trinque still wants his purely functional firewall thinger
ben_vulpes: what's the difference between "everything is a file" and "global variables" anyways
trinque: filesystem is a big farty key-value store
☟︎ phf: you have to have some set of global variables, even if it's only a state on the first execution of (main)
trinque: yeah hosts was my pick because it's easy to see it being interesting globally
phf: trinque: hosts file would most likely be still implemented as a filesystem file
trinque: where's the fundamentalism in that
phf: your filesystem is implemented in lisp?
trinque: maybe the filesystem is just a giant swapfile
phf: but your file manipulation dictionary is speced out to be a somewhat conventional tree like file/directory thing
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phf: trinque: anyway, the original distinction was not about hosts not being a python datastructure, it's the fact that you can't separate python semantics from the underlying os, which is unix/posix/x86/ieee combined in various forms
trinque: ah I see; we were talking completely at crossways then
phf: there's cpython which behaves ~mostly~ consistently across the system, but its behavior is part convention/part emergent details of C code and to a very significant part the details of the underlying unix
trinque: right, python is very much involved with unixisms
ben_vulpes: trinque: examples of unixisms deeply rooted in python?
ben_vulpes: ("how's the water today, boys?" "water?!")
trinque: ah well maybe more broadly than that; it's gonna be a system you can run c stuff, open files, do socket io, etc
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:45:32; ascii_field: which was astonishing, because debug.log ~does~ mention it (as linked earlier) - though it is not correlated temporally with your node's disconnects as seen on my end
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trinque: wraps the thing rather closely
phf: ben_vulpes: i'm not sure why that would be a controversial point. how does something like trig functions work in python? they don't, they are a call out to system level math library
trinque: psycopg for db, yep, very common for python to just tape various C libraries together
phf: same goes for sockets and file streams
phf: i write way more python then lisp, there i said it
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trinque: so ask me what holds the screen onto this X1 CARBON
ben_vulpes: and not, to hit the other end of the spectrum, gabriel_laddel
ben_vulpes: i ripped a part of the nominal 'metal' out of a compressed air nailgun two weekends back
ben_vulpes: straight up fractured and popped out. not even deformation: catastrophic fracture propagation.
trinque: this is where the hinge attaches to the screen
trinque: nice strong metal hinge; that part's still doing great
ben_vulpes: frame probably has a few strands of cf
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 22:18:22; mircea_popescu: the obviousness of all this is inescapable if one actually has at the same time the intellectual werewithal to regard the matter and the emotional disinterest of not giving a shit about the whole lot of it.
phf: i thought consensus here was that real computers only come in atx tower cases
ben_vulpes: by virtue of writing the crud once and driving oodles of business through it.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 22:47:11; pete_dushenski: only learning through trial and error
trinque: phf: yeah, this is mostly a mobile terminal
trinque: and a piece of shit one at that
trinque: I'll never purchase another Lenovo product
phf: my colleague has been telling me that x1 carbon is the best laptop. in fact he's been trashing my mbp over it
trinque: maybe he treats his better
phf: he doesn't understand. i recently switched keyboards on this laptop, now that is not an operation for people with shaky hands. requires complete removal of guts and then removing ~~200 screws that attach the keyboard to the frame.
trinque: I had a 2007 black macbook that lasted 7-8 years
phf: "this is my laptop. there are many like it"
ben_vulpes: i dont know why anyone would treat an apple product as anything but a disposable terminal
trinque: I doused elderbook (as it came to be called) with beer, coffee, god knows what else
trinque: felt the same way about a pentium 3 thinkpad I had
phf: ben_vulpes: i'm having a hard time finding a better laptop including later mbp models, which have gone downhill even more
trinque: I don't get the sense that Tim Cook would beat someone with one if he didn't approve of it
mats: 2012 mbp is last good mbp
trinque: the "retina" was a piece of shit
trinque: I am a barbarian, can't be trusted with delicate things
ben_vulpes: things are cookies these days, granted.
ben_vulpes: $bizpartner got the new delicate thing
phf: i think i have the last matte mbp screen, which is another thing
ben_vulpes: i have an mbp, 15", only took it out to play eulora once and a while because i got ubuntu on it waaay ways ago
mats: i had some play time with a 'surface pro 3' and it was p good
phf: no hackathon stickers? ;)
mats: would own if it was $500 new
trinque: ben_vulpes: gentleman we know has the right idea; just stack up old thinkpads
trinque: go for quantity; stops working, pitch it out the window
phf: a github sticker, a "vegan" sticker, a random hackathon sticker, an "anarchist" sticker and your startup's logo
trinque: the startup logo corner tends to stack up
trinque: mats: what does the keyboard feel like?
trinque: and when do we get actual products again?
mats: its decently responsive and I like the action
mats: not good on the lap
BingoBoingo: <trinque> I'll never purchase another Lenovo product << try the X1?0e education series. Cheap AMD options available and honest tough plastic for those damned kids.
phf: i got a refurbished x61, it arrived with a broken fan, literally boots into "fan error" message
phf: BingoBoingo: does it run openbsd fine?
mats: I have a hard time justifying dropping ~1450 on a 13in MBA with 8gb or I would be on the aapl train
trinque: apple's a scam these days too
mats: not everyone can be ben_moneybags with the dedicated eulora mbp
phf: (and what i mean by fine is video card, wifi and suspend to ram)
BingoBoingo: phf: My 120e does with a different wifi card
BingoBoingo: phf: Also I end up having to replace the fan annually, but probably because I take it out to smoke cigarettes with me.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 00:51:01; mod6: mircea_popescu can scarcely believe all the ustards have to talk about is whether men sit like this or like that << ikr! i heard some lawyer say to another lawyer on the train, "mind your man spread bro".
trinque: that internalization of feminist bullshit is disgusting
trinque waits for the portland morality police to cart him off
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 04:53:19; ben_vulpes: buenos noches
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 05:09:59; trinque: filesystem is a big farty key-value store
mircea_popescu: there's no "directories" in any other sense than key prefixes.
trinque: yup, that's how I look at it
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Sentence was a mess, should be fixed, also not the latest article
mircea_popescu: how has the adult looking 15 yo girl in the original turned into a retarded looking adult in the "upgrade " ?
BingoBoingo: Colorizarion always renders the serious derpy because people can't compose color the right way
cazalla: mircea_popescu, she is an artist, and they're having an exhibition, and that's that!
cazalla: "Ms Long said the feedback from the Romanian community had been overwhelming."
cazalla: "If anyone had the right to be offended it would be the Romanian community and yet, it's the opposite"
cazalla: i thought the man playing the fiddle was the most cringe worthy of them all fwiw
mircea_popescu: or wait, did little miss margerine tub think photochopping is somehow controversial and ima hate a pelican ?
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fluffypony: our Internet is reasonably good, it's just expensive
fluffypony: I have wireless to a fibre base station on a highsite, so latency is pretty low, 10mbps down / 1.5mbps up
mircea_popescu has just learned that one can't in point of fact get a phone plan in the us that doesn't charge FOR INCOMING CALLS
☟︎ mircea_popescu: leaving aside all the "need id to buy phone card" nonsense, this is just too out there. wtf
cazalla: you can buy them ready activated on gumtree (craigslist) with cash anyway if need be
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fluffypony: when I was there in November I got a prepaid SIM from T-Mobile for $80 for a month
fluffypony: and that was unlimited everything (calls / SMS / data)
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fluffypony: what's actually quite nice is that it also has unlimited SMS and unlimited data when roaming in 120 countries, BUT the roaming data speed is capped at 128kbps
fluffypony: still good enough for email and messaging
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:14:22; *: trinque had unpasteurized milk recently; there's a good farm for it nearby
mircea_popescu: disposable, for the record, is in no way bad for the environment. it consists of mixing celulose pulp with human excrement and burrying it. this is a much better use than mixing cellulose pulp with pigments and then storing it on shelves.
cazalla: i don't think good or bad for environment ever crossed my mind.. cannot buy cloth anywhere and tbh i don't fancy scraping the shit from them and couldn't sell the idea to missus
cazalla: "but your mother did it this way, my mother did it this way, you should too!"
mircea_popescu: not too hard to make your own disposable cloth diapers anyway. just buy some cheap metrage and cut it up.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 03:27:07; asciilifeform: we have two basic species of rat here, one that climbs, and one that tunnels
mircea_popescu: punkman : get a plumber's snake, a rag and gasoline. affix the rag to the bit, soak it, light it and shove it in as far as you can reach
punkman: I have flooded it with water a few times
mircea_popescu: in other news, i was today in an elevator which insistently stated that max weight = 150kg
mircea_popescu: one of those old style things you see in 1950s french movies.
mircea_popescu: i imagine the grief of couples in that building you know, they move in as 20somethings, can take it together
mircea_popescu: one sad, sad year, when the elevator won't start anymore
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 04:05:47; asciilifeform: rewrite it.
cazalla: wouldn't the sign just go ignored?
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mircea_popescu: you can ignore it all you want, it'll ignore you right back
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pete_dushenski: "Electricity generated by US wind farms fell 6 per cent in the first half of the year even as the nation expanded wind generation capacity by 9 per cent, Energy Information Administration records show."
pete_dushenski: "The reason was some of the softest air currents in 40 years, cutting power sales from wind farms to utilities"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "“We never anticipated a drop-off in the wind resource as we have witnessed over the past six months,” David Crane, chief executive of power producer NRG Energy, told analysts last month"
pete_dushenski: "we never anticipated that moore's law would've broken down in 2008 or that obama would be every bit as much of a monkey/terrorist as bush mk ii"
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pete_dushenski: *i'd put 'nappy changing' up there with building basic lego designs in terms of difficulty
cazalla: yes, but keep in mind changing the nappy of a stationary child is ezmode
cazalla: gotta play through easy then normal before hard more with the mobile toddler who doesn't fancy doing what you want
pete_dushenski: "At least a few intrepid i3 REx owners have enthusiastically taken to coding their cars. A partial list of functions that can be added or modified with those updates includes: Allowing fuel tank to accept full capacity of 2.4 gallons, Adding suppressed European "hold battery charge" function, Enabling suppressed AM radio, Suppressing U.S.-mandated seat-belt warning tone, Permitting video to be run from USB stora
pete_dushenski: ge device, Changing startup image (one owner found "a cool Alpina" emblem hidden in the car's software)"
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "The software that enables these functions is already present in U.S.-market BMW i3 vehicles. But it's suppressed in many cases, due to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) or California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations--or BMW North America's perception of consumer preferences."
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 11:18:21; pete_dushenski: ge device, Changing startup image (one owner found "a cool Alpina" emblem hidden in the car's software)"
pete_dushenski: ftr bmw i3 'rex' differs from regular i3 in its use of a 'range extender', not unlike that on the chevy volt
pete_dushenski: punkman: not a bad idea to have your own obd-ii reader
punkman: the tuning part is scary, I wonder if anyone has managed to explode his car
shinohai: You guys remember those accel units from the 90's that let you do all that to your EFI ?
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punkman: there are probably people doing this since the first car with microelectronics appeared
punkman: well you can't have software hacking when the car has no software
shinohai: My "hacks" were mostly to wiring and such. My mother, in her nasally Jewish voice, always swore I was going to "burn myself alive in my car"
☟︎☟︎ pete_dushenski: modded cars used to transport liquor under the cover of darkness in the 1920s were the basis for stock car racing, which eventually led to 'nascar'
shinohai: Sad to see that such a noble sport declined into nascar.
pete_dushenski: i can't say i've ever been much for nascar, but enough of the tradition seems to have carried on, despite the distillation of the source into a platonic game
pete_dushenski: it's still blue-collar yahoos trying to out-gun one another at >200 kph
shinohai: I despise nascar. I live in the heart of it.
shinohai: It just bores me. I can't watch cars go in circle 2-3 hours.
pete_dushenski: see wrc cars themselves are epic machines, but the races neither work on tv or live
pete_dushenski: whereas f1 only really works on tv and nascar only works live
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assbot: SECURITY ALERT: Bug in Go clients causing increase in difficulty. Mandatory update for miners asap; transacting users & exchanges unaffected : ethereum ... (
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jurov: pete_dushenski mats $genericreassurance $coinbrcomingbacksoon $sorryforinconvenience
jurov: but really, my brain had meltdown trying to reconstruct what went down on mpex order book in that time :(
pete_dushenski: jurov: hm. well, thanks for the update. mighta cost us a few shekels but nothing life changing. life goes on.
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shinohai needs to make time to investigate jurov 's site when it is back up.
jurov: but mpex order/trade matching is hairy, errors are likely to snowball
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pete_dushenski: i should clarify that 'well designed' means 'attractively designed' in this instance. i nfi about the hairball backend.
jurov: now you mean what? the mermaid?
shinohai: tbh I would need a ton of research to know where to begin.
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jurov: thestringpuller: it goes like rm -rf /, set on fire, salt the earth
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 07:06:40; *: mircea_popescu has just learned that one can't in point of fact get a phone plan in the us that doesn't charge FOR INCOMING CALLS
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2014 13:47:32; mircea_popescu: to me too. and i got a 100 pesos samsung dumbphone. it's light, i couldn't care less if someone steals it.
punkman: I haven't been to any eu countries that charge for incoming calls/sms
davout: punkman: yeah, only if roaming
punkman: but no reason to roam when you can buy another sim at the airport when you land
davout: punkman: then you have the problems that go with a new number
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: i'd rather have bigger pipes to flush my shit down rather than the shit move away from my house faster.
shinohai: Sorry it is a stoopid slideshow
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davout: thestringpuller: bigger pipers == more throughput for smell to come back up
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: I thought that bend was for when wife loses engagement ring while doing dishes...
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jurov somehow imagined boeings full of shit
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jurov: aka septic planes :)
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assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:13:47; mircea_popescu: trinque>china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being a military threat <<< you don't understand how this works. the aircraft carrier is irrelevant. china bet on the winning strat (missile defense) and bet a lot more than the us can afford, and as a result now has unchallangeable area denial ability throughout the shores. this means it can pursue its
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thestringpuller: i should just create 500 reddit-bot accounts to upvote our shit
jurov: just pay some philippinos
davout: reddit: the place where philippinos vote-cancel other philippinos
trinque: yeah but like, how is bitcoin going to give me free college and corn products?
trinque: thestringpuller: please pay me 10BTC for my exclusive webinar
davout: thestringpuller: "while i sleep" is the important tidbit
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trinque: flag store nearby does not have a rebel flag
trinque: I want to put that and the Texan flag in each back window of my station wagon on the way home
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trinque: thestringpuller: because I want Texas to secede :)
trinque: thestringpuller: there were a number of sensible things in the Confederate constitution as well
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 10:59:18; pete_dushenski: "The reason was some of the softest air currents in 40 years, cutting power sales from wind farms to utilities"
mircea_popescu: "The fact is that the economic growth we had in the last quarter was in line with expectations. Of course it bounces around from quarter to quarter but it was in line with our overarching expectation." <<< bwahaha who is this ignorant twerp. he looks like an indigent and speaks like an indigent, too!
mircea_popescu: "Features that make CockroachDB unstoppable What a database needs in 2015" << fuck that nonsense, what's the year got to do with anything.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller infinity, who would want to use a private stock exchange that has a proven track record of everything.
mircea_popescu: Suppressing U.S.-mandated seat-belt warning tone << holy shit that rules.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller more or less in the manner picostocks still exists.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 11:35:05; shinohai: My "hacks" were mostly to wiring and such. My mother, in her nasally Jewish voice, always swore I was going to "burn myself alive in my car"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller plox to not import multiple versions of the same stupid into ba thx
mircea_popescu: "Will there ever be a point in time where bitcoin will be so easy to use that it won't be intimidating for the average Joe?"
mircea_popescu: "the average joe" does not belong above ground, either.
fluffypony: the extraordinary joe, on the other hand
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 14:25:01; asciilifeform: where, exactly, can you get phone that doesn't charge for incoming ?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 14:27:05; asciilifeform: many american ones do not.
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:15:46; mircea_popescu: and it would seem the us is all glass. much like hitler's socialist regime, or stalin's socialist regime, the us socialism can not really take defeat well. either they turn it around or they go under, there's no "occupied france" going on.
mircea_popescu: thus a is a "minor bug" and b is a "we have to refactor".
mircea_popescu: exactly the same is the situation in politics, which are throughout software. if the country is run by unfit men, which is the very definition of socialism, the fundamentals are ipso facto rotten. everyone knows they are rotten. the only reason things carry on is because "well, it works", ie, it hasn't crashed yet. once it crashes, that's it, off to the scrap heap.
mircea_popescu: socialism doesn't take defeat well the same way crappy software doesn't take failure well.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile if the country is run by fit men, defeat only strengthens the resolve. a fine example are the early roman republican defeats, which merely served to raise more army behind the senate,
mircea_popescu: or for that matter the numerous setbacks and defeats of the us rebel army up to and including valleyforge.
mircea_popescu: (this is also why socialism is so keen in inventing imaginary enemies. the drain on resources faux "wars" with imagined boogaboos impose is bad, but not terminal. the advantage of an enemy that can never actually come in and defeat you, for lack of existence, is unparalleled. and so it goes.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only good thing coming out of that parade (an event imbecile "world leaders" are not going to - and should be hanged by their constituencies for not having attended, if those constituencies weren't made up of retards) is that xi specifically mentioned discrimination as bad. this is an improbable stance for china.
mircea_popescu: and "potential new users" are going to "leave ship". << lol davout
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 16:26:26; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1261457 << a) everywhere. literally. how dumbfucked usians are needs no further proof than this simple fact. you derps put up with charge for INCOMING, srsly ? heh. b) i have like a dozen+. disposable cellphone ftw.
BingoBoingo: <jurov> but mpex order/trade matching is hairy, errors are likely to snowball << Maybe it is because MPEx skipped its summer vacation this year?
jurov: lol what does summer vacation have with order matching?
BingoBoingo: jurov: I don't know exactly, but Maybe the server is cranky?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:14:22; *: trinque had unpasteurized milk recently; there's a good farm for it nearby
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 33850 @ 0.00071388 = 24.1648 BTC [-]
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 01:37:31; asciilifeform: the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:43:53; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-09-2015#1260662 << actually this is the one place where the clean hand of marketronics seems to me most apparent. reasonable sane people are not numerous enough here to be a market segment even to sell a paper clip.
ben_vulpes: well your "here" is batshit nuts amigo.
ascii_field: wai wat - ben_vulpes does not see this segmentation where he lives ?
ascii_field: e.g., can buy antibiotic-free but gmo-enabled chicken ?
ben_vulpes: there are enough reasonable sane people here to make farmers markets within walking distance of my house 4/7 days of the week financially viable.
ben_vulpes: quit bullshitting, nothing is in walking distance of your house!
ben_vulpes: leastaways that was a complaint i heard from you once.
punkman: food supply also needs WoT
ben_vulpes: people who eat manufactured food - eat manufactured food.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes gets oil for frying pan at the farmer market ?
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ascii_field: phun phakt: in recent year or so, 'paypal' will simply sit on a transaction for three weeks, collecting interest from the money.
☟︎ ascii_field: this is actually tangentially related to the market thing earlier with ben_vulpes
ascii_field: in that THERE IS NO ALT-PAYPAL because THERE IS NO ALT-EBAY
kakobrekla: last time i had a dispute solved by paypal, i was overcompensated.
punkman: ebay is not that different to amazon these days
kakobrekla: in the words of Blake, "just lucky, i guess".
☟︎ ascii_field: punkman: amazon is not a sole source for anything
ascii_field: where the fuck am i supposed to get, e.g, specific bracket for specific circa-1992 laptop ?
ascii_field: or soviet z80 cpu of particular east german factory
ascii_field: srsly, if the answer is 'don't do that, instead put this broomstick up your arse' then fuckyou
punkman: ebay has been optimizing for "chinese supermarket" sellers for a long time now.
punkman: ascii_field: your argument has merit, but I don't think for long
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 18:28:40; kakobrekla: in the words of Blake, "just lucky, i guess".
ascii_field: punkman et al: notice how paypal is among the most hated firms in the world, prolly right up there with microshit; and yet there is no escape from it if you use ebay
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 21:29:20; ascii_field: as far as i'm concerned, historically, ebay is just this gizmo that shaves a zero off the price of the costliest things i buy. so i was never moved to care whether it is run by hitler or fueled with baby seal juice etc.
phf: <ascii_field> they flag residences with more-than-average count of distinct sim id << they do? i don't even know how many sims i have, they have all kinds of practical applications! sms proxies, rc helicopters, remote triggered explosive devices, what?
ascii_field: phf: if you're ~connected~ with more than a handful, you are flagged.
ascii_field: precisely how many and within what geographic spot constitutes 'interesting', i do not know. ask the inquisitor when it's your turn in the room 101 chair.
ascii_field: the main flagging criterion as per various leaked papers is 'sim that connects only occasionally'
ascii_field: and WHERE THE FUCK OTHER THAN EBAY could i have gotten it.
phf: naturally all the retro names fetch a pretty penny
ascii_field: phf: it isn't about 'retro name' but about the only programmer's calculator ever made
ascii_field: as in, does shr and shl, and/or/xor/not, hex->dec->oct->bin, each of these with 1 keypress
phf: there's that conversion project, that takes one of the modern hp calculators and adds a programmer friendly firmware. the layout is not as good though
ascii_field: i don't want the 49 series with their idiot vertical layout and tiny keys
ascii_field: and FUCK NO do i not want multiple keypresses for the above ops
ascii_field: classic 'here have this thing that isn't actually the same at all'
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phf: "why would you need it? when you can have an ipad app version!!"
BingoBoingo: <ascii_field> ben_vulpes gets oil for frying pan at the farmer market ? << Doesn't the oil render of the MEGA_Hippie pork lardons?
ascii_field: and even if it were the correct size & shape, I AM NOT FUCKING WRITING ON KEYS WITH PEN
ascii_field: shinohai: it materialized, i used it for years.
phf: ascii_field: guy who wrote firmware also distributes laminates. i hear you, but it's the whole poverty point, for me it was a step up from "why the fuck can't i get a decent rpn calculator?" i tried iphone apps even..
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ascii_field: phf: it is better to use a really good computer proggy, like 'derive', than a shit calculator
phf: i've noticed that. i have a pretty hacked up ccl repl, that does math for me in infix notation, and that's something that i reach for in anger. i'd like something as easy, and preferably portable
ascii_field: the lack of an EXACT knockoff 16c anywhere on the planet is among the best evidence for mircea_popescu's hypothesis that 'no one programs'
phf: nobody's going to go out of their way to satisfy the needs of 100 people or so, who are also temperamentally ascetics
phf: except for medici of course
phf: but we have shortage of those
phf: ascii_field: have you used calc at all?
ascii_field: thing is, i like doing things away from computer.
jurov never heard of derive.exe before ... such abject poverty
jurov: yes saw it, kudos!
ascii_field: it will boot on raw iron or on any reasonable emulator
phf: i'm disappointed that amazon caved and went the retard route with their kindle. i've gotten as far as booting temacs on kindle, back when it still had a shitty but hardware keyboard, gave up when i saw version two with touch screen, left in disgusts when fire came out
ascii_field: phf: 'dx' was imho the only usable machine from them
phf: i have a hand rolled version of instapaper that takes html articles and adds them to a periodic readinglist.mobi. same for b-a logs. in fact i read most of the stuff on kindle, far away from a real computer..
☟︎ phf: but that goes with the whole "market of 100 people"
phf: probably could be reversed, but at the price point nobody with that amount of free time will bother. there's a chinese firmware hack, that replaces kindle's os
ascii_field: i had this on my dx, they are invariably shit
ascii_field: full of supposedly-tolerable 'minor imperfections' like most opensource garbage
assbot: Texas State student rides her Barbie Jeep around campus after DWI arrest, Internet loves it - San Antonio Express-News ... (
http://bit.ly/1POa0o7 )
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 99380 @ 0.00069508 = 69.0771 BTC [+] {2}
phf: imho that was the first wave of retards in linux the whole "linux on desktop" thing, shifted massive amounts of resources towards догоним и перегоним. instead of bullet proof fvwm or whatever, you now have a dozen of windows ripoffs with "minor imperfections", but don't worry there's a libfoo that adds exposé support to your terminal characters
ascii_field: but with regards to 'chinese firmware' i meant the opposite end of the plague
ascii_field: 'none of the buttons work but that's ok, you can press morse with power switch to scroll'
assbot: Video: CAIR-FL Calls New Assault Weapon Inscribed with Bible Verse a ‘Shameful Marketing Ploy’ - YouTube ... (
http://bit.ly/1POauuh )
ascii_field: what's it say? 'i come not with peace but a sword' ?
trinque: "deter muslim terrorists" lol
phf: this is probably not the best example but there's only so much time you can spend googling "ak-47 allah" at a packed lebanese cafe
BingoBoingo: shinohai: "And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD."?
shinohai: Hell, having a bible verse on a rifle discourages *me* from using it.
ascii_field: l0l this reminds me of the 'hello kitty' rifle
BingoBoingo: shinohai: "Kill the bullock before the LORD ... bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar."?
ascii_field: popularly bought by wife to discourage husband from hogging it at target practice day
ascii_field: srsly, walk into any u.s. gun shop, there they are, bright-pink kalash, etc
assbot: Psalm 144:1 TSK: Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle and my fingers for warfare, ... (
http://bit.ly/1POb5we )
trinque: Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle;
trinque: danielpbarron: found your gun ^
BingoBoingo: shinohai: "And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense."?
shinohai: Maybe danielpbarron can tell us if it fulfills a prophecy. Bible is out of my league.
shinohai: Though I do want a copy of that "Queen James" Bible translation to keep on the shelf for when Mormons come over.r
jurov: I'd play safe and had a Greek one. That one's passable for Catholics and Protestants too
BingoBoingo: Also greek allows maximum trollage when you tell Missionaries the original text isn't all that exciting
trinque: these gun-toting christians hate socialism, so I like them just fine
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shinohai: I honest;y don't have a problem with most, except the real real fundies
trinque: shinohai: I see it as just another way to line people up into some semblance of a command structure
phf: trinque: my main issue with fundamentalists and their ilk is that they are busybodies and tend to get into other people's business. none of that "render unto caesar". not to mention that the whole badass christian patriarch stance is pathetic, because its false.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 57568 @ 0.00069906 = 40.2435 BTC [+]
trinque: phf: I can see that point, but I see the problem as a matter of what rules are imposed, not that they are imposed.
☟︎ assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 45677 @ 0.00070866 = 32.3695 BTC [+] {3}
trinque: the alternative at least in the US seems to be this social-media narcissism which feels not just justified but entitled to arbitrary beliefs
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 25716 @ 0.00071293 = 18.3337 BTC [+] {2}
trinque: phf: also elaborate if you would on how the "badass christian patriarch" is false?
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 20700 @ 0.00069085 = 14.3006 BTC [-] {3}
ascii_field: trinque: no shortage of this. picture the 'patriarch' in usg divorce court
ascii_field: or in usg jail for having 'eye for an eye'-d
ascii_field: or 10,001 other exercises of his would-be pashtunism
☟︎ ascii_field: which end in a sore starfish and little else
trinque: wouldn't he say that he'd like the laws changed further in his favor in those cases?
trinque: but yes, not much he can do here and now
trinque: and most of these people don't see that the american system resulted in precisely that predicament
ascii_field: they happily send their sons to army so they can 'die for a fat bitch's right to marry her dog'
trinque: yep, I was briefly interested in this "Oath Keepers" thing, but they're ironically exactly the white counterpart to #blacklivesmatter
joecool: hrm, was I purged from the WoT graph? catching up on trilema and the logs that appears to be the case?
trinque: marching around, yes with guns, but for display
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 13:45:47; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the original story with these is that they were simply a group of officers who... took an oath
trinque: "should they later find the time, interest and inclination to contribute substantially (as I have no doubt any actually could), there's going to be more revisions."
BingoBoingo: Ah, subtracted for low activity, and lack of any specific known pledge of allegience it seems joecool
joecool: I don't speak too often in here, but I do like to keep up with things
☟︎ joecool: nice job with qntra.net by the way, I read that daily
trinque: this "syrian toddler" thing is everywhere. must be time for war
ascii_field: trinque: how else to get american airforce into the meatgrinder, for ru to practice on
joecool: Best to have realistic goals I suppose. The bitcoin news sites that suck group is pretty crowded anyway
ascii_field: been far too long since vietnam, neither side even remembers what the other looks like, other than from old photos
trinque: haha, maybe we'll have a nice reunion soon
trinque: seems you could draw us back into the middle east, meanwhile hit us economically like china seems to be doing, and that's it
☟︎ trinque: our DC idiots will probably walk right into it
mats: 14:30:38 <+ascii_field> times 1,001 in a year or less << aliexpress?
ascii_field: mats: were you paying attention when i specifically mentioned ancient hardware ?
ascii_field: fine me a ~USED~ sherline four-jaw lathe chuck on ali.
ascii_field: find me a 2007 amd opteron socket-1207 cpu on ali.
ascii_field: trinque: i am listing only objects i already have
ascii_field: and that cannot be had anywhere other than ebay.
trinque: ah; well this thing looks cool
ascii_field: 'have good luck and know someone selling it' is not an alternative
ascii_field: i have shit luck and don't know anyone who has anything i want.
trinque: 0 results found for macivory, so we searched for m ivory << no kidding
ascii_field: trinque: some items even on ebay i had to wait for years to find.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 18:26:06; ascii_field: phun phakt: in recent year or so, 'paypal' will simply sit on a transaction for three weeks, collecting interest from the money.
kakobrekla: in yurop is different, every country has online flea markets in their own language, many of them quite obscure. you find many gems if you can navigate that.
mircea_popescu: "oh,. bitcoin needs larger blocks, because to compete with paypal's three week poayment processing!!1"
ascii_field: kakobrekla: i buy things that literally one out of a million people has to sell.
ascii_field: kakobrekla: and i don't have a sotheby's budget to do it with, either.
kakobrekla: but its most often taht you need to drive to pick it up as seller doesnt give a shit to post it, even if you offer pay.
phf: trinque: modern christian position on divorce, on a role of a woman in household, on a role of man in household, on premarital sex, all sham. fundamentally there's no belief in the bible. no first world christian guy would even consider living according to bible in, say, muslim style. so what constitutes badassery? hunting from a back of a pickup, or "i was linebacker 30 years ago"?
☟︎ kakobrekla: ascii_field i have found one in a million things there that ebay could not provide.
trinque: phf: eh, I don't think you know my rednecks
ascii_field: kakobrekla: but when i ~do~ find the magic artifact, it is 100% on ebay.
trinque: not saying I believe in the bible myself, but they do, and have read and studied it
ascii_field: this is not because ebay is a great thing, but because it has killed everything else remotely comparable.
phf: trinque: tell your redneck to go to his church and say out loud that he beliefs that divorce is a sin, that woman that initiates a divorce can no be redeemed in the eyes of god, etc.
trinque: there's a whole other world outside the cities, and its not all inbred
kakobrekla: even got an item for 500e on one such obscure place, an item that surfaces on ebay once a year and goes for 5k.
phf: trinque: i don't have a reference for that rednecks that i go snowboarding and sometimes hunting with are not very religious. they just say all the tv talking points, abortion, gays, liberal elite, etc.
phf: trinque: but i'm thinking specifically of ~christian~ communities rather then rednecks specifically. my reference point are friends whose parents are "active in church" or work as missionaries abroad
phf: and they seem to be as contemptible as any liberal suburban family, just with some polarities switched
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: ever since he chose not to show up here and get in the wot
trinque: phf: I know christians that believe the man's the head of the house, and that one is to follow the bible literally
trinque: one's that would get along with danielpbarron
jurov: i have met him personally in timisoara (and his trophy gf), did not look like a good fit
trinque: phf: I see the beliefs themselves less relevant than the command structure implied by them
ascii_field: hasn't he revealed himself to be a spammer piece of shit ?
jurov: voorhees was on 1st conf
trinque: somebody could figure out a way to do something interesting with that.
ascii_field does not know voorhes personally, but distinctly recalls that the man was embroiled in spam
jurov: well.. wences casares was there, too, not sure if it was the same eyar
ascii_field: jurov: iirc from mircea_popescu's article, that was one of the people there
jurov: i had a bit heated discussion with him that it the wallet users don't own the privkeys, wtf is that all about
ascii_field: jurov: i was never able to conceive of casares as anything other than a 'wallet-inspector' sc4mz0r
jurov: well.. if i hadn't met you in person, i'd have very different image too :)
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: good digging, i suspected he might've been, but search for 'voorhees' on btcalpha drew up a blank
kakobrekla: voorhees and casares were at the first meet
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: upon further review, he's evorhees isn't in assbot's l2, so i guess he's not in the wot after all.
kakobrekla: they saw kako is in reality a nice guy and left the place.
jurov was watching mpoe-pr aka hanbot in action, riding her tablet
mats: jurov: have an eta for coinbr availability?
jurov: have pinpointed the cause, tomorrow evening likely
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thestringpuller: “Now, everyone sees this as a critical topic. I know of more than 100 firms that are trying to make the blockchain more scalable, more secure, to make the one that everybody will use. There’s a race on out there.”
ascii_field: btcdrak: that thing appears to require login
jurov: "He was happy to see me," Obama added.
shinohai: "Of course this doesn't help mining pools. They would need to find ways to sink the DoS attacks themselves." LOL
assbot: Logged on 16-08-2015 17:54:18; kakobrekla: wheres that ddoser now, could be put to good use
btcdrak: Oh let me screencap it then
BingoBoingo: It's official, Obama like Kanye West loves fish sticks and is in fact a gay fish.
mike_c: oh gavin.. "... which should eventually evolve into "download, check for valid signatures, and automatically upgrade" code (yet another feature that I think it is pretty clear people want that can't make it past the Core idea review process)."
kakobrekla: My nodes got hit with 25 GBit/sec. The university firewall handled it like a pro, but I was forced to shut off my nodes. Due to the security implications (I guess DDoS attacks are a security risk now?) I'll have to fight to get them back up again.
mircea_popescu: herp. so he's mooching bw and everything from maryland ?
pete_dushenski: garzik re 'bip100' reddit convo : This is mostly pre-feedback, transcribing the discussion documentation into a technical specification. The doc & spec & code will evolve from here, based on community feedback and testing."
ascii_field: tiny more from the fact that it compresses so well
ascii_field: just about whole thing is tied with identical pieces
btcdrak: mike_c: autoupdate has been discussed a lot in Core, and is absolutely out of the questions because of the security implications.
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assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 19:17:20; phf: i have a hand rolled version of instapaper that takes html articles and adds them to a periodic readinglist.mobi. same for b-a logs. in fact i read most of the stuff on kindle, far away from a real computer..
mircea_popescu: in fact... that's imo the driver behind "smartphone" (tablets y compris) : here, have this lighter tv screen you can shove in your ass.
mircea_popescu: when all is said and done, "the people themselves" do not want a computer but a tv set.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i use a (very large) tablet thing to read djvu scans, and (occasionally) hyperlinkified therealbitcoin src. that's it.
mircea_popescu: and if you have to check out a poem ? drop back to desktop ?>
ascii_field: (though the thing has provisions for an external keyboard, in principle)
mircea_popescu: but the only comfortable position for keyboarding is sitting
ascii_field: hence it is strictly for reading a particular item.
ascii_field: at the same time i ~would~ like a >300 dpi screen on real computer
mircea_popescu: what i would like is if they stopped dicking around and made holo displays already
mircea_popescu: all this "2d view of a 3d world" shit is for the birds./
ascii_field: i want to see transparently through my display like i want a second arse.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for proper graph display. imagine mike's wot graph in 3d.
ascii_field: this is one of those things that ~sounds~ great until you do it.
mircea_popescu: i want a 1 cubic metre display. dun care so much about dpi
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mircea_popescu: they can use magnetics to create tiny refraction surfaces in mid air
ascii_field: over the years i conceived of several designs for such a thing. because i, too, wanted one.
ascii_field: but strictly the kind mircea_popescu describes - with true three-axis box
mircea_popescu: none of that fake "3d in 2d" bs. actual 3d display. i need an[other] electric car like i need another hairdo.
ascii_field: i did realize, though, that there is nothing to connect it to.
mircea_popescu would like to say THAT web2.0. the proper one. "cube webpages"
mircea_popescu: anyway. magnetic bottle exists, there's no fucking excuse. not like any sort of quantum leap is required. just index and miniaturize.
ascii_field: only thing is, when viewing text i need it to be opaque.
ascii_field: otherwise it is like reading on plastic bag.
mircea_popescu: look : if it can keep gas in, it should be able to keep light out
ascii_field: this design approach makes hot fusion look easy.
ascii_field: realize, nothing in, e.g., a tokamak, is ever dense enough to become anything like opaque.
mircea_popescu: the real problem here is that ... well... no rich people left. nobody to say "fuck you, either make this and you get one trillion, or i spend a trillion torturing your families. you have one year."
ascii_field: 'In the marble streets of Ashgabat, we soon grow a bit tired and sweaty. In theory, we could rest a bit inside one of the many bus stops, designed to be air-conditioned. The air-conditioning has stopped working, so instead they are now glass ovens where you can bake yourself. We decide to wait outside. ' << orc win !
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 20:13:18; ascii_field: or 10,001 other exercises of his would-be pashtunism
mircea_popescu: ascii_field: they happily send their sons to army so they can 'die for a fat bitch's right to marry her dog' << wow. that, right there, is more valuable to orlov's employer than orlov's entire body of work to date. mebbe you get job offers nao.
☟︎ mircea_popescu fantasises at the dystopia where alf writes PR for a living.
phf: kindle solves specific problem of my eyes getting tired of staring at backlit screen
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 20:21:03; joecool: I don't speak too often in here, but I do like to keep up with things
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 22:33:16; mircea_popescu: ascii_field: they happily send their sons to army so they can 'die for a fat bitch's right to marry her dog' << wow. that, right there, is more valuable to orlov's employer than orlov's entire body of work to date. mebbe you get job offers nao.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 20:28:51; trinque: seems you could draw us back into the middle east, meanwhile hit us economically like china seems to be doing, and that's it
mircea_popescu: ok, ladies and gents, this here is what narcissism actually is, at its peak.
phf: mircea_popescu: how do i kill a backlight?
ascii_field: 'this is spiffy, i wish i'd written it' - 'waitasec, i did write it'
mircea_popescu: phf this screen rightnao i have at 6300K and 0.375 gamma
ascii_field: phf: what do you have that is readable without a backlight?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: unless you have a 'eizo' or 'barco', those numbers have very tenuous relation to physical reality
ascii_field: but are more like the dial of a washing machine
mircea_popescu: the 6300K thing is WAY more important than anyone realises. and cutting down on the gamma helps loads.
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mircea_popescu: aha. blue is the fatiguer. and, of course, goes without saying, small fonts.
kakobrekla: so 'blue light makes you more alert' or someshit science is bogus?
mircea_popescu: anyway, i have nfi what "alert" means. but fatigue is defined.
joecool: overstimulation leads to fatigue/exhaustion sort of thing"
kakobrekla: some go as far as to treat jetlag with that
mircea_popescu: none of the bitches that tan are as alert as the bitches that don't.
mircea_popescu: joecool turns out people have very different tolerances to far-blue and UV. it's a function of the quality of filtering they got which is mostly genetics.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as a rule of thumb, the bluer a light runs the cheaper it is and the shittier too. as phillips' been driving its crusade to replace all lights with shittier lights to complete the precious indications given at the 18th plenary of the permanent comission of the central committee of the economic planning bureau
mircea_popescu: it'd be expected that the central authority for communication and propaganda pumps out supporting evidence through its respective organs
phf: i've over optimized in the direction of making kindle work for me, but it is like looking through peephole. i solve the whole branching problem by relying on their notes feature: whatever you select on kindle gets saved to a text file that gets copied into my notes during sync. correspondingly my article saving mechanism converts all links to title (url) form, so i can follow up when on desktop
phf: now that i verbalize it, it's totally a programmer rabbit hole, probably should've just fixed my monitor..
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30600 @ 0.00071446 = 21.8625 BTC [+]
joecool: we run 2750K incandescent bulbs in my office
mircea_popescu: phf i think 2/3 of the benefit regulars derive from being here is this sort of thing
mircea_popescu: this is so typical of fucktard on a mission. "science is bad mkay" except if anyone disagrees with "what is your degree".
BingoBoingo: Just found it online searching the hotsheets.
mircea_popescu: because hey, nothing beats living in TWO DIFFERENT parallel if entirely imaginary universes.
fluffypony: so I've literally been saying for ages that Africa is far from ready to "embrace" Bitcoin, and half the continent won't want it anyway, but nooooo, nobody listens to me, they all want to shovel Bitcoin down Africa's throat
shinohai: r/bitcoin wants to shove BTC down everyone's throat.
shinohai: They are like undertakers reading morning obituaries, hoping to find a failing economy to rescue.
cazalla: fluffypony, you don't want black africans to have bitcoin, you rascally racist
fluffypony: cazalla: it's not even me, Africans don't want Bitcoin because they're quite happy dealing in cash and not paying tax
☟︎ assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 5453 @ 0.00071446 = 3.896 BTC [+]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 48767 @ 0.0007165 = 34.9416 BTC [+] {5}
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:47:29; mircea_popescu: trinque i'll give you an extra lol. recently the source of the "salt is bad mkay", ie the ustardemia, came out with an admission of the fraudulent nature of that entire swathe of "research". this however has not yet reached the latino "scientists" who mostly exist through translating things and pretending.
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 30900 @ 0.00071589 = 22.121 BTC [-]
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 69724 @ 0.0007175 = 50.027 BTC [+] {3}
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 11:35:05; shinohai: My "hacks" were mostly to wiring and such. My mother, in her nasally Jewish voice, always swore I was going to "burn myself alive in my car"
pete_dushenski: to my ear at least, 'shinohai' always sounded japanese